Guidelines For A Clothing Photographer

By Shirley Williams


Photography is not a simple task as many might think. There are huge demands placed on these professionals. Any clothing photographer should be astute and skilled if they are to accomplish their task. This makes it necessary to follow some guidelines for them to come up with images that are of high quality, elegant and beautiful.

It is important to be keen about the effect of lighting on the images. Having the appropriate lighting enables the image captured to have unique facets of the garments. Sufficient light makes it possible for you to capture excellent images with less interference and more sharpness. To ensure that you have ample lighting, you can rent lighting equipment at a cheaper cost. However, if renting equipment is not in your budget you can as well use natural light from large window and a reflector panel.

Additionally, the camera settings should be done properly. No matter the prowess of the photographer, if the camera settings are poorly done, then the photos captures will have poor quality as well. For this to be realized you need to have thorough and detailed knowledge on aperture, ISO and white balance set ups for a camera. The ISO settings always be between 600 and 640. Anything less or higher than this reading will result to a compromised image quality.

On the same, the larger the aperture, the more the aspect of your image will be focused. You need to set your aperture to be more than f/11. In the same breath, set the white balance according to the light or automatic for the camera to decide.

To present such images in different platforms, you need to convert them into web-ready color space profile. These formats include; adobe RGB, CMYK and SRGB. Failure to convert images, viewers will have challenges displaying in different browsers, sites and screens. In most cases, the images will not appear as they are. Before embarking on the exercise of conversion, you should ensure that quality of your images is superb. It is advisable to convert your image into SRGB which is versatile and can be displayed across platforms without compromising its quality.

The images must be edited meticulously. This can be achieved by making sure cropping, background, alignment and color improves the value of the image. For alignment, all the products of your images should be of the same size. Also, the angles, edges, and corners should be organized and arranged in relation to one another.

If cropping, make sure to do it uniformly. All features of the image should come out proportional. Otherwise, you may end up with an image that is worse than the original. Always crop images to match the platform you intend to upload them.

Lastly, the background style should be consistent on all the images. This makes the images to look appealing, attractive and presented in a professional way. The recommended backgrounds are both white and light grey which look elegant. Moreover, garments colors must be presented accurately. Since camera cannot capture some colors like neon and some shades of green you will be required to use photoshop to tweak the colors of your images.




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